The Alan Parsons Project Album: “Instrumental Works”

Where are "Hyper-Gamma Spaces," "Lucifer" and "Secret Garden," 3 of their greatest works? "In the Lap of the Gods" would have been welcome, too. This was a good start, but I'm going to re-burn it with the aforementioned, plus tracks from "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" and "Try Anything Once."

Yes, some of this veers dangerously close to wallpaper. And some of it sounds like bad Passport ("Hawkeye" for e.g.), or a generic-chase-scene-from-a-generic-Action Thriller ("Where's The Walrus" for another e.g.). And yes, for some weird reason they left off some great INSTRUMENTALS (like the wonderful "Secret Garden" from the otherwise tepid EVE, for yet another e.g.). Oh - - and yes, the tracks are taken out of context but hey, they're instrumentals so who cares. And no, listening to this CD is probably not the best way to get into Alan Parsons or his Project. But when it's good ("Voyager") or great ("The Gold Bug"), you might tend to forget all that. (The cheesy vocals at the end of the latter make it quite irresistable, but if you can convince me that the guy's not really singing "Hey! Bouncy Bouncy, Bounce!" I promise I will love you forever.) On the other hand, you might not forget that most of it is pretty derivative. Ah, so what. At least it doesn't try to pass itself off as jazz, even with the ubiquitous sax.

I have this cassette and played to death. Bought the disk and enjoy the hell out of it. Thank you.

Almost perfect instrumental complimation. It lacks Lucifer and Sirius, but still holds up well. Pleasant listening. It's time for another volume. There's plenty instrumentals on the cds from Try Anything Once to Valid Path. If there's too many label legalities, then do a live vol 2. Alan just do it, please: for the sake of your fantatical fans like me. That's us in those cubicles staring at useless and endless streams of data all day long in those steel and glass towers with our head phones plugged in to AP to keep us sane. Do That or do a Christmas cd. Take your pick don't rest on your laurels. I need my Alan fix. Have David Gilmour on it again,too. Don't make me start my own Austrailian Alan Parsons Band. That's not a bad idea either. hmmm!